Hazardous Waste Management Training

Toxic Wastes

**** you up when you ingest or absorb it through your skin Mercury, lead, arsenic

P List Listed Waste

Acutely hazardous includes fluorine and cyanides and nicotine

What is Hazardous Waste?

Can be a threat to public health or the environment Can be solid, liquid, or gas

Ignitable characteristic waste

Cause fires in some cases, spontaneously combust, or have low flash points oils and used solvents

U List listed waste

Commercial chemical products i.e. benzene and formaldehyde

Characteristic Waste

Defined based on it's properties

What to know about hazardous waste

Hazards PPE spill kit location and use shower/eyewash location SDS location

Hazardous Waste Label

List as hazardous waste name, phone number, building and room number hazardous property names of all the chemicals, hazardous properties and concentrations

Two types of hazardous waste?

Listed Waste and Characteristic Waste

Reducing Hazardous Waste

Minimization Substitution Neutralization Recycle

What not to do in the lab

No open containers No unlabeled containers

F List Specific Waste

Non specific process wastes metal finishing and spenet solvents

Types of Listed Waste

P List U List K List F List

K List Listed Waste

Process specific waste petroleum waste

Corrosive Characteristic Waste

acids or bases with a ph less than 2 or greater than 12.5 corrode metal containers sodium hydroxides

Universal Waste

have very common materials such as batteries or pesticides

Mixed Waste

hazardous and radioactive waste

What to do with broken glass

rigid containers that can't be punctured tape the lid

Store wastes

separate by compatibility close waste containers unless adding to them secondary containment trays for acids and others don't have over 55 gallons of hazardous waste in the lab

Reactive Characteristic wastes

unstable and can explode or react violently lithium sulfur batteries